Why was shadow step not removed

Blizzard has previously removed key cards from classes, but somehow shadow step is like never touch. It stops Rogue from really having any real design space mostly stuff like miracle rogue and just the endgame combo as stuff like astalor.

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Yeah, with Bounce around and Astalor Rogue will be a pain from tomorrow.

Bounce is fine
The real issue is that we dont have the rule
Cannot be reduced below 1

Because bouncing cards is part of rogues identity. Shadowstep is fine. Brann was the problem and he rotates out.

Shadowstep is mostly a problem in miracle rogue due to abusing dancers to both mana cheat and build up number of cards played.

Dancer is rotating, so that cheese only has to be dealt with in wild.

A lot of people, most notably VS, are predicting one of the weakest rogues in an expansion to date, so don’t panic about rogue, you will have plenty of crap to hate this expansion, but I doubt rogue will be one of those things.

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Don’t worry. DK is coming to take over your primary annoyance with this game today.

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Wouldn’t be surprised if rogue is in the bottom 3 post rotation.

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I kinda agree, rogue isnt looking that strong to me, but we dhall see, at the cost of ranking i am gonna try to make rogue work but willprobably get smashed by dh and mage and dk

Theres always some bs comming from rogue, just that it needs to be found. Tier 1 eventually i think.